Ecosystem productivity models rely on regional climatic information to estimate temperature and moisture constraints influencing plant growth. However, the productivity response to these environmental factors is uncertain at the global scale and has largely been defined using limited observations from sparse monitoring sites, including carbon flux towers. Recent studies have shown that satellit...

Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is an essential component in hydrological and ecological processes. The Penman–Monteith (PM) model of Food Agriculture Organization the United Nations (FAO) requires a number meteorological parameters; it urgent to develop high-precision computationally efficient ET0 models with fewer parameter inputs. This study proposed genetic algorithm (GA) optimize extrem...

Near-surface meteorological forcing (NSMF) datasets, mixed observations, and model forecasts are widely used in global climate change sustainable development studies. For practical purposes, it is important to evaluate NSMF especially those released latest, determine their strengths limitations. In this study, we the performance of Multi-Source Weather (MSWX) China over period 1979–2016. compar...

Climate change and variability, has embarked societies in Zanzibar to rely on horticulture (i.e. watermelon production) as an adaptive measure due unpromising situation of commonly used agricultural yields. Currently, there is either no or scant information that describes the influence climate changes variability production Zanzibar. Thus, this study aimed determine quantity The both primary se...

Abstract Temperature readings observed at surface weather stations have been used for detecting changes in climate due to their long period of observations. The most common temperature metrics recorded are the daily maximum (TMax) and minimum (TMin) extremes. Unfortunately, influences besides background variations impact these measurements such as (1) instruments, (2) location, (3) time observa...

Classically, availability refers to the work available in any reversible process that brings about equilibrium between the system and its environment. Here we introduce an additional meaning of availability as the maximum work associated with the change of an external parameter in the Hamiltonian of a quantum system. This availability can be gained in a FEAT process and for times larger than or...

BACKGROUND Cluster investigations has been an important tool in investigations of diseases. While clustering of diseases or a manifestation in community can cause great public alarm, similar unexplained clustering in hospital admissions has baffled clinicians. OBJECTIVES (a) To determine whether perceived unexplained clustering of diseases and manifestations among hospital admissions is real ...

Despite the availability of global and continental climate datasets change information, locally relevant quantification historic trends in variables is still lacking developing countries, especially at local scales. This particularly true Department Arequipa, Peru. An arid region with a booming population, substantial mining activities, large irrigated agriculture, which highly susceptible to c...

We used radiotelemetry to study mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) brood movements, wetland use, and duckling survival during a major drought (1988–1992) and during the first 2 years of the subsequent wet period (1993–1994) at 4 51-km sites in prairie pothole landscapes in eastern North Dakota, USA. About two-thirds of 69 radiomarked mallard broods initiated moves from the nest to water before noon, ...

this research studies the potential impact of climate change on future trend and changes of two well known drought indicators namely rdi and spi in yazd meteorological station, in central part of iran. for this purpose, data of hadcm3 model that were resulted from gcm-runs based on the ipcc-sres scenarios of a2 and b2 were acquired and analyzed for projection of daily tmin, tmax and precipitati...